Transcript for Judge Dawson Sentences People to Shovel Snow, Run Around the Block

You can send me your twitter photos at ginger zunderscore, zee. Cold justice if I star in a shows, a creative judge employing unusual tactics. Putting vicks to work by having them shovel snow for seniors. It doesn't stop there. He's actually right there working with them side by side. Abc's gio benitez is here with this creative form of punishment. Good morning. This is not like any criminal sentence you've seen before. But as the list of seniors with snowy lawns grows, so does the judge's need for an army of shoveling convicts. You might say a shovel was judge william dawson's gavel. In east cleveland, ohio, he spends this day shoveling snow for the elderly. We are a group in cleveland and I used to get up in the morning before going to school shovel the snow for my mother so she could go to wo Reporter: But judge dawson is taking that childhood pastime to a whole new level. In his courtroom vicks might be told to grab a shovel and not sit in a cell. Some of the guys that come out are sentenced to do it and i tell them in court. It's hard work because we're actually shoveling snow. Reporter: It's not the first time ohio ups have gotten creative with sentences. It november a woman who drove on a sidewalk to get around a school bus was sentenced to two days of publicly holding a sign that labeled her an idiot. And in february, a judge ordered a man to apologize to his wife on facebook to avoid a 60-day jail sentenc after violating a court order. Community first, right? Reporter: Those weren't judge dawson's cases but he's always looking for new creative punishments. So there was a young man who ran from the police, he said, you know, I ran from the police and they couldn't keep up with me. I said is that right. Part of your sentence will be meet me and my bailiff saturday and we're going to run around our community since you like running so much. Reporter: The judge tells his stories with a smile because he says his only motivation is to help the community he grew up in. Thank you very much. You're welcome. We just came up with this idea because we know we have older residency and want to help them out. That's right. You're beautiful and it's our pleasure. Thank you. Reporter: How nice. By the way judge dawson does this on his own free time mostly on the weekends. Dan, bianna. He's so young. I expected like a grandfatherly figure. A lot of people didn't even believe he was actually a judge. So -- now they know. Very cool story and cold justice, keep that in mind if i

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